For a few days, a graph has been circulating on the internet that shows some calculations about the money earned by Apple and where exactly this money ends up and I will discuss it a little because it seems to me to be poorly calculated because the sales of the "star" phone all over the world seem to me it seems that they were calculated referring only to the US and AT&T. Looking at the graph, I didn't notice any new information, at least for me, I knew that the manufacturing price of an iPhone is $179, I knew that Apple sells it at a price 3 times higher and that AT&T earns more much more than the 2 billion calculated there and I also knew that Apple has a market share of (from the smartphone market) 17% compared to Nokia's 39 percent and most likely in 2-3 it will match Nokia.
All well and good in those calculations, everyone gets something from Apple for their contribution to the creation of the iPhone, but I haven't seen the calculation of iPhone sales from the rest of the world. I know that the Americans limit themselves only to them, but still.... if we calculate the selling price of an iPhone in Europe, where Apple probably does not sell it for $550 but for 500 euros, let's say to the operators, the price difference already comes from the dollar-euro conversion, and what a difference of $180 for each iPhone, of course, leaving aside the percentage of each contract that goes to Apple.
So from my point of view the billion that went to the companies that produce the parts for the iPhone would actually be two, or maybe I'm wrong and Apple sells the phones in Europe and the rest of the world for $550 and the price difference comes from the European operators who don't I know how to make users complain. Anyway, since the iPhone appeared, Apple has been doing better and better from a financial point of view, and it is one of the few companies in the US, if not the only one, that had huge profits during the crisis.
